The essential targets of dry eye disease (DED) treatments include both objective signs and subjective symptoms. However, due to the numerous subjective symptoms, it is understandable why little association has been found between the signs and symptoms. Although psychological influences on the subjective symptoms have been reported, little is known about the influence of personality traits. The ...

Personality traits and cardiorespiratory fitness in older adults are reliable predictors of health and longevity. We examined the association between personality traits and energy expenditure at rest (basal metabolic rate) and during normal and maximal sustained walking. Personality traits and oxygen (VO(2)) consumption were assessed in 642 participants from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of ...

OBJECTIVE Personality traits have been associated with chronic disease. Less is known about the longitudinal relation between personality and disease and whether chronic disease is associated with changes in personality. Method. Participants from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (N = 2,008) completed the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and a standard medical interview at regularly sc...

This paper intends to join the long-standing debate regarding thinking styles and personality traits— should thinking styles be measured in addition to the measurement of personality traits? The means to achieve this goal was to provide empirical evidence as well as to review other studies in the literature. The Thinking Styles Inventory and the NEO Five-Factor Inventory were administered to 26...

BACKGROUND A better understanding of the relationship between treatment-seeking for alcohol problems and personality traits could give useful insight in factors promoting or hindering treatment for alcohol use disorders (AUD). The aim of this study was to analyze the associations between treatment-seeking for AUD, personality traits, and psychiatric co-morbidity in women. The study was based on...

The authors used a vulnerability-stress-adaptation framework to examine personality traits and chronic stress as predictors of the developmental course of physical aggression in the early years of marriage. Additionally, personality traits and physical aggression were examined as predictors of the developmental course of chronic stress. Data from 103 couples collected 4 times over the first 3 y...

Linguistic markers of personality traits have been studied extensively, but few crosscultural studies exist. In this paper, we evaluate how native speakers of American English and Arabic perceive personality traits and naturalness of English utterances that vary along the dimensions of verbosity, hedging, lexical and syntactic alignment, and formality. The utterances are the turns within dialog...

It is widely accepted that the Five Factor Model (FFM) is a satisfactory description of the pattern of covariations among personality traits, which supposedly fits, more or less adequately, every individual. As an amendment to the FFM, we propose that the customary five-factor structure is only a near-universal, because it does not fit all individuals but only a large majority of them. Evidence...

Recents studies have demonstrated how useful and fundamental psychological aspects such as people Personality Traits and Emotions are during human decisionmaking process. Some research towards the identification and model of user’s Emotions have been done by Affective Computing researchers, however Personality Traits have been quite neglected. The World Wide Web is an enormous source of product...

Son yıllarda psikoloji çalışmalarında, kişiliğin olumsuz olarak tanımlanan ve istenmeyen karanlık taraflarını ifade eden narsisizm, psikopati makyevelizm alt boyutlarından oluşan “Karanlık üçlü” kavramı dikkat çekmektedir. Karanlık Üçlü kişilik özellikleri ile ilgili çalışmalara sıklıkla odaklanılması insan doğasının pozitif özelliklerinin arka planda kalma riskini ortaya çıkarmaktadır. Bu nokt...